New paper: Collector-stealer: a Russian origin credential and information extractor

Posted by on Dec 8, 2021

Collector-stealer, a piece of malware of Russian origin, is heavily used on the Internet to exfiltrate sensitive data from end-user systems and store it in its C&C panels. In a new article, F5 researchers Aditya K Sood and Rohit Chaturvedi present a 360 analysis of the Collector-stealer malware to unearth hidden artifacts covering binary analysis, its working, and the design of associated C&C panels.

Collector-stealer: a Russian origin credential and information extractor

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